I am the Founding Director of the
University of Washington eScience Institute,
whose goal is to advance the techniques and technologies of data-intensive discovery, and to diffuse them across the campus.
Technical foci of the eScience Institute include data management, data visualization,
machine learning, cloud computing, and others. Our support comes from the University of Washington,
the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Washington Research Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others;
in November 2013 UW, UC Berkeley, and NYU became partners in
a
five-year, $37.8 million award from the Moore and Sloan Foundations
whose goal is to dramatically accelerate the growth of data-intensive discovery in a broad range of fields.

Data architecture for the Ocean Observatories Initiative

I am an Adjunct Professor in the University of Washington's world-renowned School of Oceanography. I have participated in various aspects of the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative, which is deploying 1,000 km of fiber optic cable on the seafloor on the Juan de Fuca plate with the goal of transforming aspects of oceanography from an expeditionary to an observatory science. My late friend Jim Gray was an active participant in the early stages of this effort. My Ph.D. student Keith Grochow built a
novel visualization system
that played a role in this effort.